Audio Fabric: Socio-sonic Textures in the Real World

This year’s Convocation examines the social impact of sound in the
real world: natural soundscapes, music, technological sounds, mediated
sounds, spaces, places and sites. Technology cannot be divorced from the
interconnections with cultural output, social practice and aesthetics.
We seek to contextualise all sound-making and its sciences and
technologies. What is the societal impact of our artistic and technical
practice with sound? How does our research and practice impact the wider
community? Finally, given that our practice is, for the most part,
financed by public funding, what is it that we are giving back?
The fourth annual Irish Sound, Science and Technology Convocation
(ISSTC 2014) will be held August 28-29, 2014 at National University
Ireland, Maynooth.